what are patches ?

Mark Ovens marko at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 4 19:02:38 PST 2005


Tom Huppi wrote:
> 
> Almost totally unrelated, but this reminds me of a very pleasant
> conversation I had with on of the early FreeBSD developers.  He
> mentioned that the FreeBSD project grew out of what was known as
> 'the unofficial 386BSD patch kit' or something like that name.  He
> said that it got to the point where the patch set was indeed
> larger than the distribution of the OS of interest (which was, I
> believe, the first port of BSD Unix to the x86 architecture.)  I
> didn't get the sense that he was joking about that.
> 

He wasn't. 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html

Mark


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